Edsurge On Air
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 251:27:26
- More information
Informações:
Synopsis
A weekly podcast, with insightful conversations about edtech and the future of learning, hosted by EdSurge's Jenny Abamu and Jeffrey R. Young. Whether youre an entrepreneur, an educator, or an investor, theres something for everyone on the air.
Episodes
-
What Brain Science Says About How to Better Teach Teenagers
21/05/2024 Duration: 42minOne author who spent years researching what brain science says about adolescent learners says their behavior shouldn’t be seen as “deviant” or “immature,” but as a “time of possibility.” And this researcher, Ellen Galinsky, has strong feelings about how to address phones and social media in schools. Read a partial transcript and see show notes at EdSurge: https://www.edsurge.com/news/2024-05-21-what-brain-science-says-about-how-to-better-teach-teenagers
-
High School Students Want Answers Before Heading to Campus (Doubting College, Ep. 4)
14/05/2024 Duration: 25minToday’s high school students are asking more skeptical questions about whether to go to college, or when to go. For this week’s podcast, we visited a career fair at one public high school to ask about the changing ways that high school counselors and education leaders are presenting those choices, and what these students think about their options.
-
Can ‘Linguistic Fingerprinting’ Guard Against AI Cheating?
07/05/2024 Duration: 47minSome educators are trying a different approach to guarding against AI cheating — a “linguistic fingerprinting” technique that borrows a page from the playbook of criminal investigations.
-
A Scholar Hopes to Diversify the Narrative Around Undocumented Students
30/04/2024 Duration: 47minFelecia Russell was born in Jamaica but moved to Los Angeles as a kid. It wasn’t until she started to apply for college that she learned that she was undocumented, which she worried could derail her dreams. She tells her story in a new book, “Amplifying Black Undocumented Student Voices in Higher Education,” which she hopes will help “diversify the narrative” about immigration and education.
-
Why a New Teaching Approach is Going Viral on Social Media (Encore Episode)
23/04/2024 Duration: 01h06minWhen a professor’s research showed that standard methods of teaching problem-solving weren’t working, he set out to figure out what led to more student thinking. His resulting approach is spreading through classrooms, helped by teachers sharing examples on social media. This is a reissue of an episode that first ran in November.
-
Whatever Happened to Building a Metaverse for Education?
16/04/2024 Duration: 43minTwo years ago the metaverse was getting all the buzz in education circles (and hardly anyone was talking about AI). We checked back in with two educators at the forefront of building a virtual realm for education to see where they see things going now that the hype has faded.
-
How VR Can Be an ‘Empathy Machine’ for Education
09/04/2024 Duration: 51minThe biggest reason to use VR in education is to tap into a student’s emotional response through immersive experiences, argues Maya Georgieva, director of The New School’s Innovation Center and a leading voice about where VR is headed. Hear her insights in this new interview. Find more details and show notes at: https://www.edsurge.com/news/2024-04-05-how-vr-can-be-an-empathy-machine-for-education
-
Is It Time for a National Conversation About Eliminating Letter Grades?
02/04/2024 Duration: 43minThere’s a growing movement to drop letter grades in favor of new systems that focus on mastery of material rather than chasing points. But opponents worry about losing rigor. A new book hopes to start a national conversation about the issue. More details and show notes at: https://www.edsurge.com/news/2024-04-02-is-it-time-for-a-national-conversation-about-eliminating-letter-grades
-
Could AI Give Civics Education a Boost?
26/03/2024 Duration: 56minSocial studies has been ‘deprioritized’ for decades, in favor of STEM fields, according to some educators. Could AI essay grading help improve the quality of civics and social studies education in schools?
-
What New Research Says About Fostering a ‘Sense of Belonging’ in Classrooms
19/03/2024 Duration: 54minThere are key junctures in education that are especially important for helping students feel they belong in school or college. And new research points to better ways to strengthen student-teacher relationships and a sense of belonging, argues Greg Walton, a psychology professor at Stanford University.
-
How Is the ‘College Is a Scam’ Narrative Influencing Who Goes to Campus? (Doubting College, Ep. 3)
12/03/2024 Duration: 01h04minThere’s growing skepticism of higher education, complete with popular memes on social media that “college is a scam.” Experts in policy and marketing have some suggestions on how to counter that narrative.
-
An Educator’s Podcast Aims to Be an Antidote to School Culture Wars
05/03/2024 Duration: 57minA longtime educator worries that the raging culture wars in education create toxic environments that hurt academic learning. He’s started a podcast that brings together people with deeply different views on issues that are most dividing school communities these days and uses depolarizing techniques to try to model repairing such breaches.
-
Can VR Help Preserve and Teach Indigenous Culture?
27/02/2024 Duration: 38minCould virtual reality be the key to teaching indigenous ways of knowing to a broad population of students? Jared Ten Brink, a doctoral student in education, is trying to record and teach some key practices of his tribal elders using VR video.
-
How Growing Skepticism of College Is Making Students Savvier Edu Shoppers (Doubting College, Ep. 2)
20/02/2024 Duration: 34minIn part two of our podcast series Doubting College, which explores the growing skepticism of higher ed, we talk to students and counselors at a public high school about how students are thinking through their choices after graduation.
-
AI Is Disrupting Professions That Require College Degrees. How Should Higher Ed Respond?
13/02/2024 Duration: 45minA recent study ranked the top professions that are likely to be disrupted by ChatGPT and other new AI technologies, and most of them require college degrees. How does higher ed need to change what it teaches to respond?
-
What If Myths, Metaphors and Riddles Are the Key to Reshaping K-12 Education?
06/02/2024 Duration: 48minDid the education theories that drive today’s schools and teaching practices get off track and do they need a reset — one that gets back to earlier days of oral storytelling? That was the argument of philosopher Kieran Egan, whose educational writings have recently gotten attention.
-
How Classroom Technology Has Changed the Parent-Teacher Relationship
30/01/2024 Duration: 27minIt can be harder than ever for teachers to manage their relationships with parents, even though digital tools make interactions more frequent. This week’s EdSurge podcast looks at why.
-
Inside the Push to Bring AI Literacy to Schools and Colleges
23/01/2024 Duration: 53minThere’s a growing push to add AI literacy as a subject in schools and colleges. But what exactly is AI literacy, and can educators promote curiosity about the subject amid their own concerns, and in some cases fear, around ChatGPT and other generative AI?
-
How Smartphones Have Changed Student Attention, Even When They’re Removed
16/01/2024 Duration: 01h18sHolding student attention may be harder than ever. Even if educators make students put away their smartphones, internet-connected devices have changed the way people relate to others and made it harder for people to be present, argues a Georgetown University professor.
-
Lessons From This 'Golden Age' of Learning Science (Encore Episode)
09/01/2024 Duration: 01h03minExperts have described this as a 'golden age' of discovery in the area of learning science, with new insights emerging regularly on how humans learn. So what can educators, policymakers and any lifelong learner gain from these new insights? This is a rebroadcast of one of our most popular episodes of 2023.